I used to buy Total Guitar magazine despite it being mostly interviews with Slash and Steve Vai it was pretty useful for gear and tabs before I had steady internet
Shoot for a while but wasn’t that into football tbh.
Then some video game ones - C&VG, something else I can’t remember.
Music stuff when I got a bit older - NME and/or MM. Monthly things like Q, Sounds more on an occasional if I had a coach journey or something basis. Same with the odd film thing like Sight&Sound.
In one of his column compilation book he included the piece from PC Zone where they brought him back and made him review euro truck simulator 2008 or something. Think it just ended with ‘‘fuck off’’.
At school it was NME, MM, Sky, Select, The Face. Then at university it was NME, The Wire, Dazed, I-D, Careless Talk Cost Lives, Jockey Slut and Sleazenation. Used to love a couple of mags on a long train journey.
Rock Sound around 2007 was absolutely essential. For a mainstream magazine it didnt half give spotlight on lesser known bands alongside the more crowd pleasing fare. The CDs each month were a treasure chest